Memo to all footballers: quit whining

Austin Barry

Chelsea against Man U. sometime in the '70s. The pitch a sea of mud. Ron 'Chopper' Harris tries to take out George Best with a sliding two-footed tackle from behind. Best crumples a bit but recovers, floats across the pitch and scores. Magic.

Bring back the mud, the cold sponge and bucket, and those spectacular nose clearances.

Nausious Windbag. F.C

I'm amazed that anyone still takes any kind of an interest in professional football. Its a totally mercenary and cynical sport of interest primarily to the fanatically committed-the paying through the nose fanbase and the financially privileged owners and players who have no commitment whatever to anything except themselves.

Jez

One of the biggest wonders to my tiny little mind is that with all this argy bargy, handbags at dawn milarky there's never (ever) a punch thrown of quality or substance.

I don't want to see this by the way- but all these tough 80K a week athlete's seem to be strutting around like ten men but can't / won't actually hit each other whist paddle slapping for England?

What's the story with that?

(I'm not on about Gerrards alleged pathetic drunken elbow to that chaps head either- because he didn't do it guvnor, honest!)

Edward McLaughlin

Marvellous memory Austin.

In his defence, Chopper Harris has paid tribute to George: "By far the best player who I ever fouled".

Yes Rod, the quagmires and snow covered games were a mid-season oddity which did provide a bit of fun - sadly, no longer a part of the football scene.

For me, the beautiful game now wears far too much make-up. She'll let anybody get inside her shirt for 40 quid. Just not the same when you have to pay and she's just faking it and counting the guilders.

our jack

Ay by gum,I do.

Pitches were like people in them days, real hardy and nay nonsense.

And another thing - even the tarts had hairs on their chest. I well remember...........

Wilhelm

Football a childrens game.
Played by halfwits, managed by halfwits, watched by halfwits.

Bread and circuses for the masses and as we all know, the masses are asses.

Thats my 2 cents worths.

Nausious Windbag. F.C

Ah, the crash of wet leather on testicles, the bang of the ball on the centre half's head, the wallop of....the after match entertainment in Mrs Goodbodys house of relaxation, and if you told people that today they wouldn't believe you!

Jez

Eh Willhelm.... i watch footy and i'm not a....... er, sorry, what was the question again?

Jez

You know what Wilhelm, your the type of guy i'd love round at christmas.... witty, humerous, so pleasant-mannered.

A real bringer to the party...

it'd be great.

lord falmouth

Send them all to shovel snow up on the hill in Zurich, outside the FIFA bunker. That place and its occupants set the standard for: whining,corruption, expenses, spoils and 'No we don't need an electronic eye on the goal.' They could not moan to the Ref then.

Edward McLaughlin

...or was it David Webb?

phil

Can I have a moan as well ,at Arsene in particular ,a man who produces wonderful football but is the biggest whinger in the game ,he never sees a foul by his own team ,He manages never to miss an opportunity to cry cheat about other players, and last weeks outburst at Ryan Shawcross was truly disgusting -a foul,possibly ,look at the pictures and you may see poor Aarons ankle twisted before impact ,even so it was an accident as almost everyone other than Arsene has said .Were the stories right that the boy was sent off because of the damage rather than that it was foul? He is a great manager but he needs to learn to be a gentleman too .I wish Aaron a speedy recovery and Ryan too ,from the stupid remarks from a mouth which engages before contact with the brain .

Just one more moan .does anyone with an ounce of common sense know why a person who has just been fouled and has had the trainers attention has to stand off the pitch whilst the perpetrator of said foul remains on it -I have had a pal for many years on the FA council and he doesn't know !! Wilhelm may have it right after all:)

Jez

Pull yourselves together!!!!

Now if you supported Leeds, then you would have something to moan about!!!!!

(It looks like the playoffs AGAIN...... Blaaaaaah!!!!)

Mrs Mugabe

I thought whining was the English pastime. Thus the joke. 'how can you tell that the plane that's just landed is full of Brits? Because the whining continues after the jets have been switched off.' Simple really.

Baron

I’ve told you before, and you didn’t listen. The only team that should play the beautiful game is Arsenal. They have enough players to field two teams twice a week. The rest of the overpaid, robot-like primadonnas, kicking the ball mostly towards their own goal, ought to be retired.

James Murphy

You cannot call yourself a footballer unless you played with a ball with an inner tube! Ah the bulging laced seam flecked with the blood of brainless centre halves! - Painful even to look at! One immediately knew that heading was out of the question, and that one would, instead, have to develop silky dribbling skills the like of which had never been seen before in the Norwood Under 15s 'B' league before. I shan't dwell on the fact that I scored 55 goals in twenty games in the season we were promoted. I was, quite simply , years ahead of my time. That I was never picked up by the local Chelsea scout remains a black mark on that club's youth policy this very day! Not that I'm bitter, mind. Rejection on the football pitch turned me into a major poet famed for his lack of neurotic introspection and copious self-esteem.

Wilhelm

Teacup tosser Alex Ferguson, thick as a plank can hardly put two words togethor.

Plus he's a boorish grumpy ugly git .

Robert Taggart

To all you 'meedya' types...stiffen your quills, polish your metal, kick some balls ! Footballers (overpaid nancy boys) should be your next 'manhunt' (after our 'bent' politicos). They always fail our countries (Eng. Sco. Wal. Etc) yet still they enjoy the good life. Time to bring the game and its 'leaders' down to earth. GO GET 'EM.